CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Canvas (2024)
Marissa (Bridget Regan) and Eve (Joanne Kelly) have seemingly been pitted against one another since they were born. Their father, Raymond Hale (Samuel Roukin), was an oppressive collector of art who felt that his life of privilege kept him from his true calling of being an artist. He sword that his daughters would be guided […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Sweet Relief (2023)
Mr. McDaniel (Paul Lazar, Silence of the Lambs) is a retired teacher obsessed with a game all the social media kids are playing called Sweet Relief. They all name someone who they dislike and people vote on whether or not a murder would be justified. If it is, they must complete the murder. If they […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: In the Name of God (2023)
Directed and written by Ludvig Gür, Gudstjänst — which is being released in the U.S. as In the Name of God — is about Theodor (Linus Walhgren), a priest who is often the only person at his masses. The worshippers are dying off and his wife Felicia (Lisa Henni) wonders if they should move on. He’s happy that […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Noclip (2024)
In this movie directed and written by its stars, Gavin Charles and Alex Conn, two filmmakers explore a dead mall yet find themselves trapped within its environment, as the hallways, stairwells and abandoned stores start to trap them. Made in Kansas City on nearly no budget — $37 or so IMDB would like you to […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #6: Dracula Sovereign of the Damned (1980)
If you think there’s censorship in America today, well, let me tell you…after the comic book trials of the 1950s, in which Dr. Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent led to Congress having trials amidst the belief that comic books caused juvenile delinquency, the Comics Code Authority was born. Every comic needed the code and […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #5: Nate and Hayes (1983)
Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and written by Lloyd Phillips, David Odell (the writer of Masters of the Universe, Supergirl and The Dark Crystal, as well as the director of Martians Go Home and “No Strings” and “The Yattering and Jack” episodes of Tales from the Darkside) and John Hughes — yes, that John Hughes — I […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: The UFO’s of Soesterberg (2023)
De UFO’s van Soesterberg is directed by Bram Roza and just like the title says, it’s about the night of February 3, 1979. In the air above Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands, a giant black UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) hovered overhead and was seen by twelve people. All of them were military officers and […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Off Ramp (2023)
“What is a juggalo?A Hulkamaniac.He powerbombs motherfuckers into thumbtacks.People like him ’til they find out he’s unstableHe Sabu’d your momma through a coffee table.” Trey (Jon Oswald) has just got of a year in jail and even there, he’s liked by the guards. He seems like a genuine person. He went there because of Silas […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Blind Cop 2 (2024)
“The last surviving 728,000 copies of Blind Cop 1 were censored by the U.S. government. Each individual one was burned and buried in the Syracuse salt mines.” After saving the city in the last movie, Blind Cop (George Fearing) is mourning the loss of his partner Mac (Steven Vogel). He knows that all sorts of […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #4: The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking (1987)
There’s no way I would have ever seen this movie if it wasn’t for the Chattanooga Film Festival. “My father says if people don’t come and see this movie, we’ll starve,” says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father’s The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking. Fred G. Sullivan only made one other movie and that’s […]
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